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...black hair that grazed her waist, Nafiza had rushed to help Shah Jan get her three kids out of the burning house. A Taliban fighter spotted the woman with the emerald eyes. She was his prize. With the butt of his AK-47 rifle, he slammed Nafiza into the dust and dragged her, crying and pleading, to the highway. There, Arabs and Pakistanis of al-Qaeda joined the Taliban to sort out the young women from the other villagers. One girl preferred suicide to slavery; she threw herself down a well. Nafiza and women from surrounding villages, numbering...
...father, King George VI. He was also a married man with two children. But a secret romance eventually developed between them. The world learned about it at her sister's coronation in 1953, the year after Townsend had obtained a divorce, when Margaret was seen brushing a bit of dust from his jacket, not the kind of thing that royalty ordinarily does for commoners. In a nation where few had forgiven Edward VIII for giving up his throne because he insisted on marrying a divorced woman, the prospect that Margaret might wed a divorced man led to a huge public...
...delays in the audio. We were stepping on each other's lines," says Markel, who demands strong communication and teamwork among his brokers in far-flung cities like Richmond, Va.; Toronto; Paris; and Sydney, Australia. Soon his employees were back on airplanes, and the expensive video hookups started gathering dust. So after the terror attacks last September, when travel delays were eating up the time of his employees, Markel thought videoconferencing would be a short-term solution at best. But he attended a demonstration of new equipment, tried it out and was so impressed that...
...subtle, resilient language in the 1998 Good Friday agreement which has kept that government afloat through many storms. So why, when a group of veteran Belfast politicians held forth at the World Economic Forum in New York last week, didn't he leave the graybeards in the dust? He was perfectly competent, sometimes eloquent. But he didn't light up the room - which is not good news for the cause of moderate nationalism he leads, already suffering at the polls...
...really knows what we have at stake,” Krimsky says. “We don’t want to have [radiation] in the air, we don’t want to have it in dust particles, we don’t want it blown over Agassiz school...